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Dogs in Space Mini-Rockets: Picture Book Space STEM

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Learn about the first dogs in space and make your own mini-rockets to take them there! This STEM project is sure to bring your students delight, all while learning about rockets and space race history.

What could be better than learning about space and sending off our own rockets? Learning about DOGS going in to space and helping send THEM up in to “space”! Today’s brief storybook-inspired science project found us learning about two stray dogs and their incredible journey into space. Then, we designed our own doggie rockets and […]

Build a Bird Cage: Picture Book STEM Challenge

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Buildling a bird cage helped us practice designing and engineering a creation. Fun picture book inspired lesson!

When I read Memoirs of a Parrot by Devin Scillian, I loved the memorable parrot, Brock/Echo, who loves his crackers. After we read the book, I gave the kids in my co-op STEM Challenge class a new challenge: Make a new bird cage for Echo’s friend, Tik Tok, so they can adopt him from the […]

Design a Leprechaun Trap: Picture Book STEAM Challenge

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The leprechaun traps STEM challenge is seasonal way to practice building things and learning from design mistakes. Inspired by the book How to Trap a Leprechaun.

My daughter still talks about the time the “leprechauns” came to her preschool classroom and left their footprints everywhere, and that was years ago! There’s no doubt it’s fun to imagine leprechauns at this time of year, so it was tons of fun to read How to Trap a Leprechaun to learn that we can […]

Balancing like The Cat in the Hat: A Mini-Lesson on the Center of Gravity

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When my son was a toddler, his favorite page in The Cat in the Hat was the “Look at Me! Look at Me! Look at Me Now!” page, in which the Cat balances and hops with all sorts of fun items. I have to admit, this is a favorite for me too. “It’s fun to […]

Princess Preschool STEAM: Designing a Castle

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We contintued our Princess Preschool STEAM activities by design a castle, after being inspired by a princess show and Chris Van Dusen's book, If I Built a House.

My preschool daughter loves Princess Sofia and her animal friends, so I try to tie in her stories to our learning moments whenever we get a chance. We watched an episode in which Sofia and a friend must design and build their own dream castle, and we read Chris van Dusen’s amusing book If I […]

Conserving Trees and Recycling Paper: A Picture Book Lesson

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Reading The Great Paper Caper was a nice segue into recycling our own paper and learning about tree conservation.

To prepare for Earth Day and Arbor Day, we learned about conserving trees by recycling paper in our kitchen. Reading The Great Paper Caper, a silly mystery story, prompted this fun, hands-on science lesson.

Princess School: The Rapunzel Engineering Challenge

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Our Rapunzel engineering challenge let us play as we learned about building and as we retold a favorite story. Perfect for princess preschool!

One subject keeps my preschooler interested right now, and that is princesses. She loves Sofia the First. She loves the other Disney princesses. She loves ponies with long shimmering hair. She loves dressing like a princess and acting like a princess. If I can add princesses into school time, then I’ll get her attention. This week […]

Archimedes Water Displacement Science Lesson

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We used small liquid measures from our kitchen to measure the volume of two different rocks using Archimedes' water displacement201703 archimedes water displacement science ideas.

We’ve learned how to find the volume of a cubical object (such as my son’s bedroom). But how does one find the volume of something as odd-shaped as a rock? Using Archimedes’ story as an example, we made our own kitchen Archimedes water displacement science experiment to understand the concepts and reach our own “Eureka” […]

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